Sexual Assault/Harassment/Misconduct

Have you ever been sexually harassed?

  • Yes, more than once.

    Votes: 14 77.8%

  • Yes, once.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm not sure.

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • No, never.

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Total voters
    18
MadamSarcastra said:
He's not accused of anything except offering awkward answers to uncomfortable questions. Stop putting the poor guy on the spot. He's got a wife and four daughters, so I'd assume he cares very much about the well-being of women....
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I am not sure the wives and daughters argument is a strong one. Trump has wives and daughters and probably so did all sorts of people.

I agree with one of your other comments though. Journalists often ask people questions on a comment they wouldn't necessarily choose to comment on, and they're forced to quickly think up an answer on the spot. Then the journalist (or another one) reports that in an over sensationalized headline which ignores the rest of the interview and doesn't mention it was the answer to the question, and makes it look like the person just waded into the argument because they felt like it.
 
I personally got a taste of this type of mess back in August with Polygon's popular video producer Nick Robinson, and I have to feel like the acknowledgement of this stuff in the smaller journalistic space ballooned it to where it is now.

There's a tendency to view this from a content-consumer perspective but we have to remember always that the victims should be prioritized, not whether or not we, for example, are going to have to watch the original series Star Trek episodes with a bad taste in our mouth from now on.

I for one am glad to see this whole thing crumble. Let the truth come out, even if it breaks our franchises or our favorite media. What we build on top of it will be better.
 
One of our politicans, Trond Giske, has problems now, because of his behaviour against women earlier. So now he's on a sick leave from work. I find that a bit coward. Be a human, and face what you have done...
 
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The Norwegian politican Trond Giske quits his job now because of this. In the statement he wrote on Facebook, it was a lot about himself and how hard this was. Very little about the women that got harassed.

If all people that get harassed on work will take out a couple of weeks sick leav each time, we will have a problem in fact. There will be too many not on work.
 
One of our other politicans defends Giske, Carl I Hagen (he's been the leader of the most right winged party we have in Norway, if we don't count the old nazi parties that don't have any lists anymore).

He said that Giske is punnished after the new rules, and what he did was normal then. Giske forced kissed a young girl half his age, and forced his toung into her mouth (there are also other cases he hasn't behaved okey). I'm happy that this isn't okey anymore, if this was the standard behaviour among men for 15 years ago. He is an offial person, this has been done when he was on an official trip, so this should be official in my mind.
 
Mikkel said:
One of our politicans, Trond Giske, has problems now, because of his behaviour against women earlier. So now he's on a sick leave from work. I find that a bit coward. Be a human, and face what you have done...
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Human, all too human?

Here's a short English language article about the Giske story:
The scandal is a major embarrassment for the Labour party, which prides itself on being at the forefront of equality issues, and which recorded disappointing results at the last legislative elections in October.
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More: Norway Labour party deputy leader resigns amid harassment claims (8. Jan. 2018)
Let's face it, it's a long time since the Norwegian Labour party was at the forefront of anything progressive.
 
My state's governor:

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and his wife, Sheena Greitens, issued an extraordinary statement late Wednesday acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair in the past and that the couple “has dealt with this together honestly and privately.”

The statement came as a St. Louis television station aired a segment alleging that, during that affair, Greitens took a compromising photograph of the woman and threatened to publicize it if she exposed him. The statement from Greitens and his wife didn’t address that part of the allegation.

Greitens’ attorney, James F. Bennett, issued a statement denying the blackmail allegation.
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Greitens admits affair, but denies allegation he blackmailed woman with photo
 
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